Visiting a Women's Madrasa in Southern India

Abstract

Can a woman become an alima? While there is a vast amount of information and literature on the subject of Muslim men's learning in madrasas, this is not the case for the women's religious schools. A visit to a women's madrasa called Jamiatul Banaath, located in India's sixth largest city, Hyderabad, is the basis for further research on this topic.